Graduate Certificate in Spatial Analysis for Public Health
USA Online, USA
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 1,233 / per credit
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
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Introduction
The Certificate in Spatial Analysis for Public Health is a fully online, part-time graduate program offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Spatial analysis is an emerging field with evolving applications that are vast and paramount, impacting public health at the local and global level.
The carefully sequenced courses of the certificate program in Spatial Analysis for Public Health introduce and reinforce a unifying comprehensive spatial science paradigm, to include components of Spatial Data, GIS and Spatial Statistics.
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Curriculum
First Term
- Academic & Research Ethics at BSPH
- Spatial Analysis for Public Health
Second Term
- Spatial Data Technologies for Mapping
Third Term
- Applied Spatial Statistics
- Spatial Analysis Journal Club
Fourth Term
- Spatial Applications
Program Outcome
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the certificate program in Spatial Analysis for Public Health the individual will be able to:
- Synthesize how geography affects public health;
- Obtain and transfer information from spatial data technologies into a database appropriate for mapping;
- Utilize a geographic information system to map and spatially integrate public health related databases;
- Analyze maps using tools from the field of spatial statistics to describe and interpret distributions of health outcomes in a population;
- Design and implement a spatial analysis protocol for addressing a public health problem.